Avalanches, thresholds, and diffusion in meso-scale amorphous plasticity

Abstract

We present results on a meso-scale model for amorphous matter in athermal, quasi-static (a-AQS), steady state shear flow. In particular, we perform a careful analysis of the scaling with the lateral system size, $L$, of: i) statistics of individual relaxation events in terms of stress relaxation, $S$, and individual event mean-squared displacement, $M$, and the subsequent load increments, $\Delta \gamma$, required to initiate the next event; ii) static properties of the system encoded by $x={\sigma }_y-\sigma$, the distance of local stress values from threshold; and iii) long-time correlations and the emergence of diffusive behavior. For the event statistics, we find that the distribution of $S$ is similar to, but distinct from, the distribution of $M$. We find a strong correlation between $S$ and $M$ for any particular event, with $S\sim M^q$ with $q\approx 0.65$. $q$ completely determines the scaling exponents for $P(M)$ given those for $P(S)$. For the distribution of local thresholds, we find $P(x)$ is analytic at $x=0$, and has a value ${P(x)|}_{x=0}=p_0$ which scales with lateral system length as $p_0\sim L^{-0.6}$. Extreme value statistics arguments lead to a scaling relation between the exponents governing $P(x)$ and those governing $P(S)$. Finally, we study the long-time correlations via single-particle tracer statistics. The value of the diffusion coefficient is completely determined by $⟨\Delta \gamma ⟩$ and the scaling properties of $P(M)$ (in particular from $⟨M⟩$) rather than directly from $P(S)$ as one might have naively guessed. Our results: i) further define the a-AQS universality class, ii) clarify the relation between avalanches of stress relaxation and diffusive behavior, iii) clarify the relation between local threshold distributions and event statistics.

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